PHP > can't get my variable through from page1 to page2

Hey,
I don't understand why I'm getting the variable in my p2.php when I set it in p1.php the following way:

in p1.php I have::
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<code><form action="p2.php" method="post">
<select name="name" size="1" >


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and in my p2.php I try to just display the variable "name"


I also tried printing it directly like
printf(.$_POST['name'].);
and nothing ...

PLEASE helppppp
Do I need to change anything for this to work in my php.ini file in the root folder??

Thanx for any suggestions

It seems like you are setting the value of the name option to $PHP_SELF.

I don't use printf very often, but shouldn't the line be like this?

Thanx Cafu,
that $PHP_SELF shouldn't have been there.
But now I get just

SELECT name FROM doctors where name='Dr.'";

on p2.php

code for that is

whereas I should be getting the full name, such as Dr. Valery Green ...
Does anybody know why am I getting just Dr. without the name?
Thank you

printf is for formatting text. Try that same line with "print" or "echo" and see if that's your problem.

I tried echo and print on that print statement, but still getting just Dr. and not the whole nameeeeeeeeee

show me your new option statement, the one where you removed the PHP_SELF

i'm using yours ...

Can you view the document source to make sure that line is working correctly?

Again, I don't use printf much so, for the sake of debugging, I would probably change that line to:



Also, in typing that I noticed you aren't putting quotes around your option value. I don't know if that's the problem, but it couldn't hurt putting them in there, especially for values that have spaces in them like Dr. Valery Green.

YOU'RE A GENIUS. it workssssssssss
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Great


You may want to consider altering your code to use numerical IDs. I am assuming that in your doctor table you have some sort of id field, perhaps an auto-incrementing one. If so, you could change your query that builds the select box to:

then change your code in the page to be:




This isn't a necessary change now, but what if someday your application has advanced and you have 3000 doctors in your database.


is a lot faster than

because you are doing a numerical comparison rather than a text comparision.


Now if you have another table called "insurance_claims" that is referenced by the doctor you use the ID value in this table rather than the doctor name. If these 4000 doctors are getting 10ish claims a day this table could get kind of big and selecting all claims for one doctor will be considerably faster if you are selecting where doctor_id = 42 rather than where doctor = "Dr. Valery Green"

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Yeah, good thinking Cabu
way to gooo

Thanks so much for your help!

You deserve 500 pts.